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Detective Adrian Kessler faces his most harrowing case yet as he hunts The Subtractor, a former scientist named Dr. Halvren Pike. Pike doesn't just kill; he uses microsurgical precision to remove minute anatomical stabilizers, causing his victims to slowly collapse under their own physical weight. The stakes turn personal and terrifying when Kessler realizes he has become Pike's latest subject. Racing against his own impending physical disintegration, Kessler must navigate a deadly game of cat-and-mouse to stop a mastermind obsessed with the fragile architecture of human survival before his body fails him entirely. Comparable works include Mystery